APPENDIX C: UTILITY INCENTIVE PROGRAMS

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1 APPENDIX C: UTILITY INCENTIVE PROGRAMS Local utility providers, including Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas Company, and Inland Empire Utilities Agency, have a wide range of incentive programs aimed at promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy use. These are summarized below. Southern California Edison Programs Income Qualified Programs Energy Management Assistance Program: This program helps income-qualified households conserve energy and reduce their electricity costs. Southern California Edison (SCE) pays all the costs of purchasing and installing energyefficient appliances and equipment, which are free to eligible customers. Mobile Energy Unit: The Mobile Energy Unit (MEU) promotes energy-efficiency solutions and energy management for both residential and business customers. Energy Solutions: SCE provides their customers with a home energy survey, residential energy guides, and energy saving tips. Energy Management Solutions: SCE provides its commercial customers with energy management solutions by industry sector in order to cut costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Refrigerator & Freezer Recycling Program: SCE hauls away old refrigerators and freezers for free and provides a $50 incentive to customers. Home Energy Efficiency Survey: SCE provides its residential customers a 15-minute survey and helps them find tips to maximize savings, and useful information about rebates that they can qualify for. The results are customized for each household. Incentives For Home Energy Upgrades: SCE provides home energy-efficiency product rebates on products such as compact fluorescent (CFL) and energy efficiency lighting, Energy Star refrigerators, energy efficiency water heaters, Energy Star air conditioners, whole-house fans, and energy-efficient evaporative cooling systems. Plug-In Electric Vehicle Survey & Checklist: SCE provides a survey and checklist to help customers with electric vehicles set up their homes. Renewables Standard Contract Program: SCE provides a standardized procurement process (for renewable power generation projects not to exceed 20MW) that leads to quicker execution of the project, relative to other procurement processes. New Solar Homes Partnership: The New Solar Homes Partnership program, part of the California Solar Initiative, provides financial incentives and other support for installing

2 eligible solar generating systems on new residential buildings single family, incomeeligible, and multifamily housing. California Solar Initiative Thermal Program: SCE offers incentive rebates for electricdisplacing solar water heating systems in its service territory. Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing: This program is part of the California Solar Initiative. It offers incentives for installing eligible photovoltaic systems for qualifying multifamily affordable housing. It is designed to subsidize photovoltaic systems in multifamily housing, which will offset electricity loads and provide economic benefits for housing property owners and managers as well as building tenants. Solar Training Classes: Through the California Solar Initiative, SCE provides multiple solar training classes for homeowners, contractors, commercial entities, and thermal contractors. Solar Rooftop Program: SCE incurs photovoltaic installation costs and leases rooftop space from building owners in this solar rooftop program. Self-Generation Incentive Program: SCE customers with a demand of 30 kilowatts (kw) or more can receive a cash incentive from $0.60 to $4.50 per watt for installing qualifying electricity generating equipment under SCE's Self Generation Incentive Program. Green Jobs Education Initiative: The Green Jobs Education Initiative helps students pursue education in green jobs fields. SCE s commitment of $1 million provides grants of $100,000 each to ten California community colleges that offer green jobs training programs. Southern California Gas Company Programs Direct Assistance Program: Southern California Gas Corporation (SCGC) offers no-cost energy-saving home improvements and furnace repair or replacement services for qualified limited-income renters and homeowners. Conservation Tips: SCGC provides useful tips for residential customers to conservation energy. Instant Rebate Program: Customers may receive instant rebates for energy efficient products. Residential Rebates: SCGC offers money-saving rebates on qualifying energy-efficient appliances or upgrades for residential customers. Qualified appliances include clothes washers, dishwashers, low-flow showerheads, furnaces, insulation, natural gas storage water heaters, and natural gas tankless water heaters.

3 Rebates for Property Managers: The Multifamily Rebate Program offers rebates for the installation of qualified energy-efficient products in apartment dwelling units and common areas of apartments, condominium complexes, and mobile home parks. Energy Efficiency Starter Kit: The kit includes three faucet aerators and a low-flow showerhead to help save energy and water. Home Energy Efficiency Survey: Customers may save money and resources by taking a free Home Energy Efficiency Survey. When customers take the survey, they get customized gas, electricity, and water saving tips on the best ways to use appliances in their homes. Financing for Energy Efficiency Upgrades: Customers can qualify for $2,500 to $20,000 to purchase and install energy-efficient upgrades with the Home Energy Upgrade Financing program. Comprehensive Mobile Home Program: Qualifying mobile home customers are provided with no-cost energy conservation evaluations, installations of low-flow showerheads and faucet aerators, and gas energy-efficiency improvements, such as duct test and seal of heating/venting and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. LivingWise School Program: This program combines classroom learning and home retrofit/audit projects completed by sixth grade students and their parents. It provides a LivingWise Activity Kit for each customer. Upstream High Efficiency Gas Water Heater Rebate Program: This program offers rebates to distributors and wholesalers for high-efficiency gas water heaters to reduce or remove the price differential between these appliances and standard gas water heaters. On-Demand Efficiency (Recirculation Loops for Central Domestic Hot Water Heaters): This program installs on-demand intelligent pumps in central domestic hot water systems with recirculation loops in multifamily buildings to help reduce unnecessary natural gas consumption. High Efficiency Hot Water Distribution Program (Solar): This program helps customers install new solar pool heating systems to augment an existing gas pool heater. This program is for qualified apartment complexes that heat swimming pools throughout the year. Multifamily Direct Installation Programs: Qualifying owners and managers of multifamily buildings are provided with no-cost energy audits, products, and their installation. No-cost products include super low-flow energy-efficient showerheads, kitchen aerators, bathroom aerators, and pipe wrap for hot water distribution systems.

4 CoolGas Replacement Program: This program provides incentives, based on calculated energy savings, for the replacement of smaller (50 tons or less), older, inefficient natural gas air conditioning systems with new energy-efficient units and quality installation procedures. Domestic Hot Water Controls Project: This program installs domestic hot water controller technology on the hot water systems in hotels and motels to reduce natural gas consumption by a minimum of 25 therms per hotel room, per year. Energy Challenger: This program offers business customers an interactive online assessment to develop practical energy-efficiency recommendations. Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Rater Advanced Training Program: This program will provide advanced training and education delivered both in the classroom and online. Training is for currently certified HERS raters and energy analysts involved in new construction. Program for Resources Efficiency in Private Schools: This program is to help private grade schools, colleges and universities, preschools, and trade and technical schools reduce energy use and energy costs. Program activities and services will include customer screening, comprehensive energy audit reports, rebates, bonuses, and installation support services. Small Industrial Facility Upgrades: The program is targeted at small industrial customers to deliver natural gas savings. Program offerings include, but are not limited to, improvements for heat recovery; process equipment replacement and equipment modernization; furnace and oven improvements and excess air reduction; onsite audits to identify energy savings opportunities; and design assistance to help customers understand the best ways to achieve energy savings. Steam Trap and Compressed Air Survey: This program will provide comprehensive compressed air and steam surveys and evaluations to small through large industrial customers. Survey activities carried out onsite will include a baseline of the customer s current energy consumption; field analysis of energy-consuming equipment; application of best practices; use of standard engineering protocols for design; identification of alternate methods of accomplishing the same task with less energy input; and methods to maintain quality, reliability, and safety of plant operations while achieving the energy-savings objectives. Custom Language Efficiency Outreach (CLEO) Program: This program promotes SCGC energy-efficiency programs and education/training to customers in SCGC s service territory who speak Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indian languages. The program will also address the needs of the African American community. Offerings include

5 interactive workshops, community booths and energy surveys, and low-cost and no-cost recommendations. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Energy Savings Project: This program promotes energy-efficiency programs in the SCGC service area. The primary focus is ethnic minority communities (Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Hispanic) for customers with historically low participation in SCGC energy-efficiency programs. California Sustainability Alliance Program: This program includes public and private organizations dedicated to increasing and accelerating adoption of sustainability best practices in the planning, design, construction, and operations of new and existing facilities and communities to increase efficient utilization of resources and develop selfsustaining community initiatives and capabilities. Portfolio of the Future Program: This program is designed to identify the market commercialization of emerging technologies that can improve energy efficiency and reduce reliance on natural gas supplies in the southern California market at a quick pace. Vendor Participation Program: Suppliers and installers of insulation, steam traps, boilers and other qualifying products can apply for rebates on behalf of their customers. Seminars & Training at the Energy Resource Center: SCGC teaches the latest in energyefficient equipment and technologies. SCGC also sponsors seminars about energyefficient equipment, kitchen ventilation, food safety, equipment maintenance, industry trends, and more. Zero Percent On-Bill Financing: Working in conjunction with rebate and incentive programs, SCGC offers qualified customers purchasing qualified natural gas equipment 0%, unsecured financing. Energy Efficiency Benchmarking: SCGC benchmarking allows building owners and managers to track and assess the energy performance of their buildings at no charge. Inland Empire Utilities Agency Residential Conservation Rebates: the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) offers rebates for the purchase of residential water conservation appliances and equipment including: high efficiency clothes washers, SmartTimer controllers for lawns, and high efficiency sprinkler nozzles. IEUA also offers free landscape evaluations and a high efficiency toilet installation co-pay program. Commercial Conservation Rebates: IEUA offers rebates for the purchase of commercial water conservation appliances and equipment including: toilets and urinals, laminar flow

6 restrictors, connectionless food steamers, cooling towers, dry vacuum pumps, air cooled ice machines, smart controllers for irrigation, high efficiency sprinkler nozzles, large rotary nozzles for irrigation, and in-stem flow regulators. IEUA also offers free landscape evaluations and a high efficiency toilet installation co-pay program. Water Calculator: Through IEUA s website, residents and businesses can calculate their annual water usage using the H2O Conserve Water Calculator. Landscaping: IEUA provides the following water conservation resource materials related to landscaping: how to use irrigation controllers and leading manufacturers of controllers; a guide to edible landscaping; a database of California friendly plants; cost comparison tools for sustainable landscapes and traditional landscapes and advice from garden experts.